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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not think the Deputy should call into question the integrity or honourable motivation that Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan applies to this work. He has been a very strong advocate for Bantry General Hospital and continues to be.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Collins knows that and should acknowledge it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan fights very hard for west Cork more generally and he was very anxious that I would visit Bantry General Hospital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: It does mean something to the people who work in a hospital and so on that Government Members visit and listen. Deputy Collins knows the endoscopy and stroke units are happening. Much design work has to go into all these projects. They will happen, just as other investments happened in Bantry General Hospital. The stroke units have been very effective across the country and they will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----we also need to develop community and primary care centres.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: In the midst of all the noise that surrounds the budget these days, it is important step back and look at the direction of our economy and its ability to support strong public services. It is remarkable how rarely in the past two and a half years the Opposition has even mentioned the economy, and now that we have secured a rapid increase in employment levels, even parties which like to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: Carbon taxes are an essential part of a credible plan to tackle climate change. That is a simple fact. Therefore, we will never agree with Sinn Féin’s opposition to carbon taxes. They are essential to both changing behaviour and funding a fair and inclusive transition to a sustainable economic and environmental model. This policy is the shared view of this Government and, just...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: Its only interest is to exploit the real pressures individuals and families face. As we saw when the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, debated with the Sinn Féin spokesperson earlier this year, the sound bites simply do not stack up to even the most basic scrutiny. Their costings and building numbers are little more than inventions designed to claim to have a plan rather than actually...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for her contribution. When George Orwell wrote his great novel, 1984, he talked about the party’s emphasis on doublethink. Describing it, he explains that party members have “to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them”. Most people who have read 1984took it as a warning but...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: How else can we reconcile the party’s performance on this issue? We have just watched the Deputy condemn the Government’s proposal in respect of industry contributing to the cost of mica redress. Just last week, her colleague, Deputy Doherty, stood in this House, in the same place as the Deputy, and declared, "I also welcome the defective concrete products levy." I then...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Then again, the Deputy’s party had a Private Members’ motion in June 2021 in which it demanded "that those responsible for the manufacture of defective blocks are held to account, and that industry contributes to the overall cost". In that debate Deputy Doherty was equally clear that builders and suppliers "are held to account with a contribution extracted from the industry...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy's party is the party of doublethink and the three-card trick. It is for mica redress and industry making its contribution until it is not. It supports the levy on concrete products until it does not. The industry responsible for the problem should pay until it should not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin is making this up as it goes along.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will put it this way - God help us if it ever gets near the national finances.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: In respect of first-time buyers, we have to look at things fairly. This Government is giving unprecedented support to first-time buyers. The help-to-buy scheme has assisted 35,000 first-time buyers, at €30,000 per qualifying property. The new first homes shared equity scheme will provide further supports to first-time buyers. In the past 12 months, more first-time buyers bought...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Go bunúsach, an polasaí atá ag Sinn Féin ná Tadhg an dá thaobh, i gcónaí. They are on both sides all of the time. By the way, Animal Farmapplies to the Deputy’s party more than any other party in this Dáil any day. There is no question about that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Ask a lot of the dissidents and a lot of the people who left her party down through the years. They can verify the degree to which Animal Farmapplies to it. That is why Orwell-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I welcome our visitors from Ballyhaunis secondary school. It is why Orwell should always be a core part of the second level curriculum, just to prepare us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The danger, of course, is that the party opposite, as I have said, in particular take 1984as an instruction manual and it does it very well, holding many contradictory opinions at the same time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: On the chartered surveyors, they have come up with a calculation without even seeing the detailed design of the levy. The Finance Bill will work out the detailed design of the levy itself. The Department of Finance’s calculations are much lower than what the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland has indicated. Of course, the working out of all of this will be in the context of the...